Theodoret

Theodoret (* 393 in Antioch, Syria; † around 460 in Kyrrhos ) was Bishop of Kyrrhos and a major theologian and church historian since 423.

He defended the teachings of Nestorius and was sentenced for 449 at the Council of Ephesus ( the so-called " Robber Synod " ), 451 but rehabilitated. Theodoret left a large number of works, notably a Greek continuation of the Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius of Caesarea in five books which covers the period up to the beginning of the Nestorian controversy. The work can be - not untypical for the genre - but often miss objectivity; for example, people are judged very negatively with arianischem confession.

Nevertheless, the work of a not unimportant source of, not least due to the fact traditional material to the Arian controversy. His writings against Cyril of Alexandria were sentenced under the Three Chapters controversy at the 5th Ecumenical Council 553. Due to the excited by Cassiodorus in the 6th century Latin translation of his church history, the work was still rezipiert especially in the West and developed there in the Middle Ages a significant effect.

The Ecclesiastical History of Theodoret was published as part of the church fathers Commission of the Berlin Academy of Sciences in 1911 by Léon Parmentier. The second edition (1954 ) was concerned by Felix Scheidweiler, the third edition (1998) of Günther Christian Hansen. A new edition of the Ecclesiastical History of Theodoret is part of the series Fontes Christiani in preparation ( as editor act Ulrich Hamm and Mischa Meier ).

Works

• Theodoriti Cyrensis episcopi De curatione Graecarum affectionum libri duodecim / Zenobio Acciaolo interprete. - Parisiis. Stephanus, 1519 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf